The Crochet Cover Ups We Keep Coming Back To
A good crochet cover up earns its place through the openness of the weave and the weight of the yarn, not through how much skin it promises to show. Cotton…
The Best Cropped Tops
A good cropped top earns its length rather than simply arriving at it. The cut that works stops at the natural waist, not above the ribs, and holds its shape…
The Best Corduroy Jackets For Layering This Season
A good corduroy jacket earns its place through weight and wale, not colour or cut alone. Wide wale, the kind you can see across a room, tends to read casual…
The Coral Jackets We Keep Coming Back To
Coral is a colour that punishes bad tailoring and rewards good cut, which is exactly why it separates a strong jacket from a forgettable one. On the wrong shape it…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Cropped Jackets
A cropped jacket has one job that matters more than any other: it has to stop at the right point on the body, and that point is almost always at…
The Best Brown Cami Tops
I spent years thinking brown was the colour you wore when black felt like too much effort and you couldn’t be bothered to decide on anything else. Wrong, obviously. A…
The Canvas Bags Worth Your Money
A good canvas bag is a question of weight before anything else. Pick it up empty and it should already feel like it has some intention behind it, a density…
The Best Camel Trench Coats
A camel trench coat earns its keep through proportion, not colour, though the colour does most of the emotional work. The shade should sit somewhere between biscuit and light fawn…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Cropped Jeans
A good pair of cropped jeans earns its place on the length above the ankle bone, not below it, and on what happens at the hem. Anything that stops mid…
The Crew Neck Jumpers Worth Your Money
A good crew neck jumper earns its place through what happens at the edges, not the front. Look at the ribbing on the collar, cuffs and hem first: it should…